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[edit] News 2007
- Next 10 Years critical - World Energy Outlook makes the case for stepping up co-operation with China and India to address global energy challenges, November 7 [1]
- Climate change, the rate of extinction of species, and the challenge of feeding a growing population put humanity at risk, October 25. GEO-4 is the most comprehensive UN report on the environment, prepared by about 390 experts and reviewed by more than 1 000 others across the world. GEO-4 recalls the Brundtland Commission's statement that the world does not face separate crises - the "environmental crisis", "development crisis", and "energy crisis" are all one. This crisis includes not just climate change, extinction rates and hunger, but other problems driven by growing human numbers, the rising consumption of the rich and the desperation of the poor. [2]
- G8 countries fall short on promises, Oxfam, May 10
- UNDP, China and Norway join forces to support local actions on climate change mitigation and adaptation, UNDP, March 26 / Climate change global news
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[edit] Comment 2007
- IEA projections on energy in China and India fail to adequately incorporate options for substantially expanding renewable energy and improving energy efficiency in either countries, according to Greenpeace, November 7 [3]
- New UN Report points to international emergency - an "important call for global political leadership in a fast degrading World", FoE, October 25 [4]
- Build sustainability from the bottom-up, says The Ring alliance of 13 leading research organisations on 5 continents, International Institute for Environment and Development, IIED, June 18
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- ↑ International Energy Agency, November 7
- ↑ United Nations Environment Programme, October 25
- ↑ Greenpeace, November 7
- ↑ Friends of the Earth, October 25
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